Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” whose host has trumpeted unfounded allegations of election fraud in the 2020 election, has been canceled. Fox News said in a statement Friday that the move was part of routine programming alterations it had foreshadowed in an announcement last fall.
Fox News “regularly considers programming changes and plans have been made to launch new formats according to the right options after the election, included in Fox Business – this is part of those planned changes,” the company said.
It was not addressed whether the cancellation ends Dobbs ’career with Fox News and the company made no further comment. The former CNN host began his program on Fox in March 2011.
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The statement appeared to distance the end of the program from a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed against Fox and three of its hosts, including Dobbs, by election technology company Smartmatic. In a previous statement, Fox News said it would “vigorously defend against this lawsuit without judicial funds.”
The replacement for “Lou Dobbs Tonight” will be announced soon, Fox News said. The show last aired Friday, with a guest sitting in Dobbs, who had no immediate statement.
A tentative show, “Fox Business Tonight,” will air from 5 p.m. on East Monday with rotating hosts Jackie DeAngelis and David Asman and will be repeated at 7 p.m. ET.